Smyrna times., 1887-05-04
Smyrna and Vicinity.

Smyrna and Vicinity.
FULL MOON on Saturday.
MAY parties are next in order.
ASPARAGUS made its appearance in
town yesterday.
AGOoD many new strawberry patches
were set out in April.
THE latest with the young folks is, a
b O'Clock A. NJ, boat ride.
J. w. JONES the new collector is re-
ceiVing the taxes for 1887.
WHAT is the reason we never hear
anything from our carp ponds now a
days?
MAY opened with summerlike
weather and the trees will soon be
casting a full shade.
THE Band of Hope are expecting to
to have May Day picnic in Belmont
Grove next Saturday.
JOHN NJ. VOsHELL, has a COW that
is p years old and has been given milk
continuously for 20 years.
SMYRNA escapes the circuses this
Spring and saves thereby in clear specie
thousand or more dollars.
The Poplar Grove Race course
near the Alley school house has been
plOwed up, to put the field in corn.
The season for tree planting will
soon be over. Plant a shade, fruit tree
or vine wherever you can find room
for one.
ANDREW SIsCO has word ere the
planting season passes, to say to our
farmers about how to grow grain and
care for their berries.
POTATO plants are coming through
the ground which means that the ear
liest Ofthe tubers will be in the market
in about six weeks.
THE steamer Tyget will haul off
after to-day to so through a general
OVerhauhng, painting, &c. She will
be OIL for ten days or more
The white blossoms Ofthe strawberry
patches are getting conspicuous. It
usually takes month between the
blossom and the ripened fruit.
THIS warm May weather will hurry
up sheep shearing, and Messrs. Hard !
castle q Jones give notice that they are
In the market to buy the Aeeces.
OUR phosphate makers and phos-
phate buyers will both be interested in
the tabulated Spring analyses of DR.. 7. !
r. Wolf, State Chemist in another mart
of the paper.
AN excursion train was run from this |
town to Chestertown on Sunday. the !
attraction being the Delaware Confer |
ence there, but it was not largely patron.
lied by the cOlOred people.
SAMUEL T. SMITH, Of Lewes, Grand
Master of the State of Delaware. will |
visit Morning Star Lodge, No. 6, 10.
y. f., OF this town, on Friday evening
next. A full attendance of the mem |
bers is requested.
THE statement published in the Will
mingtOn papers about the drowning of
Geo. Collins and James North we are
told by persons from Bombay Hook is
without foundation. The men are
there we'll and hearty.
Mass will be celebrated for the
future in St. POlycarp's Roman Catholic
Church on the fourth Sunday of each
month at 104 o'clock, A. M, by order
Of Right Rev. Bishop Curtis. Rev.
Father Birmingham, Rector.
THE duplicate of the school assess
ment will be completed and placed in
the hands of Collector Weldon on
Monday. Parties paying their taxes
on Monday and Tuesday next will be
entitled to a discount of 8 per cent.
THE State having discontinued the
sale OF School Books through me as
agent of course 1 can no longer sell
them at cost, and shall have to advance
the prices. A full supply will be kept
for sale as heretofore. J. B. COOPER. II
A. PRICE GRIFFITH, has sold his new
and attractive home on lower Main
street to VIM. f. Waters, of Philadel-
phia for the sum of S5 900. Mr.. Waters
expects to move down and take poses
sion OF 1t the latter part of this month.
THE editor of the Record strikes ont
boldly in his last impression for a GYM
naslum IN our town. In large institu-
tlons OF learning and in our cities thew
nave been found to serve a good pur-
pose for students and persons who lead
sedentary lives.
HERMAN HIRNHEBiER is giving his
store coat of buff paint. Miss Mary
p. Savin, E. J. Colt, Jacob Leinberger.
Mrs. Amada Spencer, VIM. C. Mitchell
II. d. Boyer, H. r. Mustard and VIM
ID. Slthens are repainting their dwell
ings.
MR.. BOGGs in the Farm and Garden
thus hits back:
we shall give the fruit growers about
Smyrna, AL the credit and honor due
them, If they don't let few bon,bastics
lead them into trouble about the peach
basket business.
B. B. ALLEN who has leased the
capaclOus rOOp Of the Rink for an
warerOOm; has in it for
the Deering binder, Feapers.
mowers, rakes, drills, wagons, car
riages, &c, almost anything needed bv
the farming community.
A CALL was issued Monday for a
meeting this evening in the rooms ad-
Joining the Americus Club rooms. "to
discuss the feasibility of orgaizing and 1
establishing a Board of Trade for the
promotion OF manufacturing and other {
interests of the town"
A COMMUNICATION signed "A Teach
er has been received but it has moth !
ng else about it TO designate who the :
teacher is. ANY one who knows as !
much as school teacher ought to 6.
know, especially as IL is so often re- :
1eated in the press, should know that !
responsible name must accompany =
icatiOn.
The run Of herring has been unusaI i
n the Delaware this Spring. This is
shown by their effort to get into every
fesh water opening. Some 3OOG were
,aught in one day last week in the
iitches in the rear of Collins Beach a
hat went in through the sIuloa c,oto Il